Human Rights in Lithuania, May 2002

21.12137/QXHZ3ESeimas of the Republic of LithuaniaLT: LithuaniaHuman Rights in Lithuania, May 2002Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA)2025Social Sciencesaccess to health serviceschildren's rightscivil and political rightsconsumer protectioncourtscrime victimselderlyethnic minoritiesgovernmentheads of statehuman rights violationshuman traffickinglegal systemslegislatureLGBTQI+ rightsmass mediamigrantspersons with disabilitiesprivate voluntary organizationsrefugeesright to informationright to privacyright to propertyright to workrights of accusedrights of prisonerswomen's rightsEquality, inequality and social exclusionLegislation and legal systemsCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA)Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, LithuaniaGaidys, Vladas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Baublytė, Marė (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Kublickienė, Lilija (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Sviklas, Eduardas (Institute for Social Research, Lithuania)Štreimikis, Antanas (Centre for Information Technology Implementation, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-5594-0580])Šarkutė, Ligita (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-1835-0186])Žvaliauskas, Giedrius (Institute of Public Policy and Administration, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0001-8970-0756])Burbienė, Diana (Center for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania [ORCID: 0000-0002-8435-090X])Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and HumanitiesCenter for Data Analysis and Archiving (DAtA), Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania2011-07-012002-05-122008-04-172025-12-232002-05-09/2002-05-12Survey dataLiDA_SurveyData_0471737032462952159458804application/x-gziptext/tab-separated-valuesapplication/x-gzipapplication/pdf1.0The purpose of the study: to analyze the Lithuanian system for the protection of human rights, identify how people protect violated (abused) rights and how they assess effectiveness of various institutions assuring the human rights. Major investigated questions: Respondents were asked to assess the Lithuanian system for the protection of human rights and issues related to main human rights (right to protection of private life; right to information; right to participate in the country governance; right to work; right to health protection; consumer rights; rights of the child; rights of the elderly; rights of the disabled; rights of victims; rights of suspects and defendants; rights of migrants and refugees; rights of ethnic minorities; rights of sexual minorities; prevention of trafficking in human beings; rights of women). Respondents were also asked about sufficiency and scope of attention given to the above issues in Lithuania and work of various institutions (Presidency, Seimas (parliament), Government, courts, media, non-governmental organisations) in assuring the human rights. Also probed were respondents' views on what institutions they would apply to in case of violation of rights; have rights of respondents been violated (abused) during the recent years and if so, what rights and where she/he applied to; have institutions analysed the violated rights and which of the violated rights were restored. Respondents were asked what sources of information provide most knowledge on the situation of human rights in Lithuania and gave evaluation of the human rights policy in Lithuania. Socio-demographic characteristics: gender, age, education, occupation, marital status, nationality, number of family members, number of children under 16 years of age in a family, income per family member per month, place of residence, region. The survey data were collected at the request of the Commission for the Implementation of the National Action Plan for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Republic of Lithuania under the Human Rights Committee of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania.SPSS, 29The series "Survey Data > Human Rights" contains survey data that allow to study Lithuanian public opinion about the state of the human rights protection system, the ways in which people defend their rights when violated, and their evaluations of the effectiveness of institutions protecting human rights. The main language of the study is Lithuanian (lit). Standardized questionnaire was provided for the respondents in Lithuanian (lit). Dataset (data and metadata) “Human Rights in Lithuania, May 2002” from 2008-04-28 to 2021-10-01 was available on the portal of Lithuanian Data Archive for Humanities and Social Sciences (LiDA) www.lidata.eu; object PID: www.lidata.eu/data/quant/LiDA_ZTLT_0001; produced by Gaidys, Vladas; Baublytė, Marė; Kublickienė, Lilija; Sviklas, Eduardas; Štreimikis, Antanas (2008-04-28); revised by Šarkutė, Ligita (2010-07-02).Vilnius, LithuaniaUnited Nations Development Programme (Support to development of national action plan for the promotion and protection of human rights in the Republic of Lithuania)